Conference bookie::movies

415.0. "Sister Act II" by 16913::MILLS_MA (To Thine own self be True) Mon Jan 03 1994 12:45

    I didn't see a note already entered for this, if there is, MOD, please
    feel free to move this.
    
    Went to see it this last weekend. A (not too surprising)
    disappointment.
    
    Even through Sister Act was a formula picture, the characters made it 
    a truly enjoyable feel-good movie. Not so SAII. A totally predictable 
    tale with two dimentsional characters, none that anyone would ever be
    remotely interested in.
    
    The editing was poor. More about this under spoiler notes.
    
    This one should have been a TV movie, at best. If you are a die-hard 
    Whoopie fan, rent it when it comes out on video. Otherwise, give it a
    miss.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Spoiler notes,
    
    Re the editing: When Whoopie learns that the school will close down,
    there is mention of a "pep-rally" she held the night before, but there
    is nothing shown before-hand.
    
    Character development: I kept expecting the James Coburn character to 
    be revealed as a property developer who wanted to buy up the school to
    turn it into the parking lot he spoke about. That, at least, would have 
    provided a little park of interest to the plot, but that didn't 
    materialize. Instead, we see surly, unruly kids, turn into well behaved 
    choir singers in the space of 5 minutes.
    
    Even the performance of most of the same "nuns" from the last movie
    seemed a tired cliche (actually, it WAS a tired cliche)
    
    Again, a big thumb down.
    
    
    Marilyn 

    Hi,
    
    I went to see this in the theatre (as opposed to waiting for video)
    because a friend wanted to see it. It it predictable? Yes. But I also
    found it enjoyable nevertheless. I would recommend waiting for the
    video on this one, and willingly suspending your disbelief. 
    
    There were some new familiar faces in this movie also- Robert
    Pastorelli from Murphy Brown, Michael Jeter from Evening Share and ???
    from Beakman's World (the female co-host), and of course Bernard
    Hughes.
    
    This movie also provided a good showcase for some great singers.
    
    Linda

         I saw this and even though I thought it might be corny
    (somebody had told me he heard it wasn't too good) and there was 
    one scene with the nuns dancing in front of an audience that I thought 
    was ridiculous, and despite the cliche story that it is, I liked it.
    The story was touching, particularly near the end.  If the movie
    couldn't be rated as exceptional, then what it represented
    came through very nicely.